COBIT®: A practical guide to IT management

With COBIT, one can identify whether appropriate rules, processes, and responsibilities are in place or if there is chaos in IT, leading to outages and hidden security threats.

COBIT is one of the most widely used global standards for IT management, and it is completely free to download from the ISACA website. Anyone can download and use it within their organization.

Examples of where COBIT can help:

• It can improve the functioning of the IT department or specific problematic areas within it.
• If you are facing issues with unauthorized changes and subsequent outages, COBIT provides a well-defined Change Management process, including activities, mandatory documentation, defined roles, and the person in IT responsible for this area and ensuring remediation.
• Common IT problems include the absence of strategy, insufficient prioritization, and poor investment management. COBIT offers solutions in these strategic areas and many others.

Why is COBIT not well-known?

And now, the important question: Why haven't you heard of COBIT and why aren't you using it, given its extensive offerings and the fact that it's free? The answer lies in its complex scientific language. While auditors are accustomed to working with regulations and framework documents, for overloaded IT managers and specialists, delving into COBIT's details is time-consuming. Paradoxically, they are the ones who need it the most because COBIT can help them navigate chaos, outages, and stress.

Understanding COBIT and how to practically use it only requires one to two days of training, with an experienced instructor. However, someone knowing COBIT doesn't necessarily mean they can explain it in a way that others understand. In the Czech and Slovak Republics, there are only two accredited instructors with extensive experience, Martin Vitouš and Ludmila Vráželová.

Name	Code	Language	Course duration	Form	Event date	Price
COBIT® 2019 Foundation + exam	PU21010064-0023		2 days	virtual classroom Online training with a lecturer at a specific time. virtual classroom	23. 11. 2023 09:00	19 900 Kč

COBIT vs. ITIL

You might wonder why learn COBIT when you already have ITIL. ITIL is also a globally used framework for IT management. COBIT originates from the USA and is developed by the ISACA organization (isaca.org), while ITIL is owned by the British organization AXELOS (axelos.com). Both frameworks are highly usable and complement each other. The advantage of ITIL compared to COBIT is its easier readability, whereas COBIT is much more structured. This means COBIT is more suitable for audits, assessing the current state, and setting goals for IT improvement and development.

Image: COBIT® 2019 Framework: Governance and Management Objectives, BAI06 Managed IT Changes